What the heck do we PAY this person? with MIKE STRAND

Monday Morning Speaker Presentation:What the heck do we PAY this person?

With Mike Strand

What you will learn at the session:

Mike Strand presents an “inside-the-employer’s” view of the alternative approaches employers take in deciding what to offer and pay prospective hires. Mike will go through the basics of compensation systems, pay ranges, hiring ranges, averages, and what it all means to you as an applicant considering a hire offer.

A number of “intangibles” (who makes the hire offer; what criteria they may use; how the offer is “staged,” and what is really important to you) will be examined in helping you to understand who might have the power to influence pay.

Mike explains how you can obtain prevalent salary data on specific positions and he offers some techniques on negotiating your salary offer.

The Speaker

Mike Strand

Michael Strand has 35 years of human resources experience at the executive level. For nearly 15 years he served as human resources director of four organizations ranging in size from 650 to 4,000 employees. In 1991, Mike founded his consulting firm: HR Dynamics, Inc. He provides a broad variety of human resources projects and services to small and medium sized non-profit and for-profit organizations in the region. Primary areas of expertise include compensation, employee benefits and employee communications.

For the past 10 years he has taught compensation and related human resources topics at various colleges and universities in the metropolitan area including Catholic University and Northern Virginia Community College. Early in 2010, Mr. Strand conducted a 2-day workshop in Compensation and Benefits for multinational corporation representatives in Singapore. Recently he created and conducted a Webinar for BLR titled “Market-Based Compensation” and another Webinar for Compensation Connection titled “7 Steps to Market-Based Pricing.”

Mike is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR). He wrote three chapters in two books about compensation, employee benefits and performance appraisal published in two books (Stress-free Performance Appraisals and The Essential HR Handbook).

Mike has a Bachelors of Business Administration degree from the University of Toledo and a Masters of Arts degree (School of Government and Business Administration) from The George Washington University.

Contact The Speaker

Attire is business casual, recruiters are often present, so we ask all Monday Speaker attendees to contribute to the professional standards and objectives of this important networking meeting.

Doors open at 9:45 for networking and the program starts promptly at 10:00.